Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 6th Sunday of Easter Cycle B
L1st Reading – Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 Our first reading today takes place several years after Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection – after Saul’s conversion (last week’s reading). The conversion of the pagan Cornelius is one of the high points of the Acts of the Apostles. Cornelius was the centurion in command of the Italian cohort stationed […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 6th Sunday of Easter Cycle A
1st Reading – Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 Last week we heard of the ordination of seven men as “assistants”: those who are to serve. In the intervening chapter (chapter 7) which comes between last week’s reading and this one, one of these assistants, Stephen by name, is martyred. The charges against him resemble those leveled against […]
Liturgical Bible Study Guide: 6th Sunday of Easter Cycle C
Gospel – John 14:23:29 Having heard last week of Jesus giving us a new commandment, to love one another, we rejoin Jesus and the apostles at the Last Supper. Jesus is instructing His apostles of the things to come. Before entering into the reading for today, it might be useful and informative to backtrack a […]